homage to my hips Women and Femininity Quotes

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these hips are big hips they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places. (1-5)

The "petty places" the speaker references are a metaphor for the petty aspects of society which try to judge the speaker (and maybe even women in general) by fitting her into small, limiting stereotypes.